Welcome. Welcome. Thank you for being here. Good to see you. So good to see you. Thank you for being here. So the reason...Let me tell you how I came to be sitting up here. Okay? I had a profound awakening in 1971, a classic enlightenment experience. I'm a product of the sixties. I was extruded through that mold. You know, so those of you who are of my same generation, you get extruded through the mold like the cream comes through the cake mold, right, so whatever the particular time and moment of your incarnation that's the flavor that we take on. So that was my flavor was the sixties, so it was a time of rebellion for me. Time of trying to find freedom, trying to find freedom through the politics, trying to find freedom through society, demanding freedom, fighting for freedom. And finally finding myself in fighting against the war in vietnam a federal fugitive and not knowing what to do. We all have crossroads in our life, certain choice points, certain moments where we have to either choose from our heart or choose from our head and I was at one of these dilemma moments...(please click the buttons below to hear this podcast)